Michael Scheuer Endorses Ron Paul for President

Michael Scheuer is the former head of the Bin Laden unit for the CIA. He was with the CIA for 22 years. He quit in disgust after the 9-11 commission report was released. He is the best-selling author of four books on the subject of foreign policy and the Middle East, and he is a painful thorn in the side of the establishment.

Iowa’s Choice: Ron Paul or U.S. Bankruptcy, More Wars, and Many More Dead Soldiers and Marines

Two recent experiences underlined for me what Iowans will vote for next week in the field of foreign policy if they do not vote for Dr. Ron Paul. On Christmas day, I heard Chris Wallace’s program on FOX. He had a guest — Mr. Charles Lane — who made the false and scurrilous claim that Dr. Paul’s foreign policy was the same as that of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s America-hating policy, a doctrine that appealed to Barack Obama for more than twenty years and which the President and his party are now implementing. Following this imbecilic assertion of Mr. Lane to its logical conclusion, U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines also must be ardent devotees of Rev Wright’s anti-Americanism as they donate many times more money to Dr. Paul than to all the other Republican candidates combined.

Then on 26 December, I visited Mount Vernon’s new and extraordinary multi-media museum documenting the life of George Washington. At the end of the exhibition there is video of U.S. Senators reading Washington’s Farewell Address into the record, something they appear to do every year. When I arrived in front of the video Senator John McCain was reading Washington’s clear warnings about the dangers of foreign intervention and the fatal impact of mindlessly favoring one country over another. To hear this from McCain’s interventionist, war-mongering, and Israel-is-always-right mouth was sound evidence of his hypocrisy and deceitfulness, as well as his and his senatorial colleagues’ ignorance of Washington’s ideas, and U.S. history in general.

Based on these two experiences, let us examine what Iowans voting for someone other than Ron Paul will do to an America already terribly wounded by the Republican and Democratic interventionism in the Muslim world.

1.) A foreign policy that will complete U.S. bankruptcy. While there is a lot of talk about cutting domestic spending to bring the federal debt under control, it is obvious that neither party is willing to make substantial cuts in that area. Indeed, both are counting on drastic cuts in defense spending to help reduce the federal debt. While they may agree on and even make defense-spending cuts, any such reductions will be short-lived and then restored to much more than current levels. Obama and any Republican, save Dr. Paul, will continue to intervene in the Muslim world and so will motivate more Muslims to fight us. A third-grader could tell you that you cannot cut defense spending when Washington’s unrelenting interventionism is cultivating new enemies who are intent on attacking U.S. citizens and interests. If you are being attacked, our third grader would patiently explain, you have to spend whatever it takes to defend yourself. And there is no doubt that we and our vital interests are going to keep being attacked by Islamists as long as we continue to intervene in their world.

2.) Obama’s return, or the election of any Republican but Dr. Paul, means the continuation of the State Department’s not-so-secret computer/Facebook/Twitter proselytizing campaign to incite people to overthrow their governments in places like Iran, Russia, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and elsewhere. [NB: Three offices of Mrs. Clinton’s elitist democracy/feminism crusade in Cairo were raided and shut down by Egyptian authorities on 28 December 2011 for intervening in Egypt’s domestic affairs.] This mindless promotion of anarchy alienates the governments targeted and will motivate them to harm the United States in some manner. Of no concern to Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and Senators McCain and Graham, of course, are the thousands of young and naive people who will die at the hands of the regimes they are instigated to overthrow by the democracy-pushing federal bureaucrats and their elitist political masters, all of whom are safe and secure here in North America. Dr. Paul’s non-interventionist policy will allow foreigners to work out their political destiny in their own way and at their own pace; prevent unnecessary additions to America’s growing list of enemies; and save countless young lives.

3.) All the Republican contenders and the Obama administration are wholehearted believers that the Arab Spring will bring the installation of secular democracy across that region. This has been and still is a nonsense that only adolescent idealists — or deliberate liars — could believe, and one that has been proven fatuous by the fact that Islamists have won every election held since the start of the Arab Spring. Neither the Obamaites nor the Republicans will admit they are wrong on this issue and they will pump billions of dollars in foreign aid into the Arab-Spring countries in a feckless, Muslim-alienating effort to build secular democracies and install the crazed feminism of Mrs. Clinton. Such aid not only will be wasted, but it surely will cause more Muslims take up arms against America. Indeed, the continuation of this bipartisan cultural/feminist war on Islam is likely to start the “clash of civilizations” Professor Huntington predicted.

4.) Electing anyone but Ron Paul will further increase the already strong chances of widespread Islamist-conducted violence inside the United States. Any other Republican candidate or a reelected Obama will keep lying to Americans by claiming that we are being attacked because of our liberties, gender-equality laws, and elections rather than because of Washington’s constant intervention in the Islamic world. This now two-decade-old lie — which is abetted by most of the media — has hidden from Americans the fact that all of the would-be Islamist attackers who have been captured in this country were motivated by the invasion of Iraq, U.S. support for Israel, or some other U.S. government action in the Muslim world. As Dr. Paul has explained, our Islamist enemies are motivated by Washington’s bipartisan foreign policy, and as long as that foreign policy does not change the number of young, U.S.-citizen Muslim males willing to attack their fellow citizens will keep increasing. For those who doubt this reality, a quick look at the recently adopted Defense Appropriations Act will clear their eyes. That Act’s authorization for the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens in the United States is clear evidence that the leaders of both parties know that their foreign policy is going to bring war to America’s streets and towns and that the U.S. military will be called on to fight Islamist militants here at home.

5.) Obama and any Republican candidate, except for Dr. Paul, will slavishly obey the U.S.-citizen-dominated, pro-Israel lobby that bribes and suborns them by getting into a war with Iran. Indeed, Washington, Tel Aviv, and London are already conducting a lethal, covert-action war inside Iran which is killing Iranian nuclear scientists and destroying nuclear-related facilities, as well as trying to goad Tehran into reacting with violence and thereby give the West a casus belli. Such a war would be a financial and military disaster for the United States, and would be watched with glee by Russian and Chinese leaders who — while their countries would lose some trade with Iran during a war — would applaud another U.S. self-inflicted wound which further erodes the already failing economy that is the base of American power. Moreover, if U.S. political leaders would not permit the U.S. military to defeat Afghan and Iraqi mujahedin armed with Korean War-vintage weapons, they surely will not allow the military to defeat a much better armed nation-state like Iran. Thus we would have yet another politically imposed defeat for the U.S. military. More painful for Americans will be the Iran-sponsored attacks that will occur in the United States if Washington and/or Israel launch a first strike on Iran. The only serious threat Iran poses to the United States is the result of more than 35 years of near-criminal bipartisan negligence by the U.S. executive and legislative branches in the fields of U.S. border control and domestic security. Both Iran’s military and intelligence services and their Lebanese Hizballah surrogate have created clandestine entry points along our southern border, as well as a large clandestine infrastructure in the continental United States, one which works with similar networks in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Iran is too smart and fearful of U.S. military power to use this apparatus to strike first in North America, but the network clearly is meant to allow Tehran to respond violently here if Iran is attacked by America and/or Israel.

6.) While all of the Republican candidates and Obama talk about their plans to make America energy self-sufficient to the greatest extent possible, there is no reason to believe any of them. In the past 40 years, the two parties have made virtually no progress toward this goal, unless you count moving up Daylight Savings Time by three weeks as a major gain. Both parties have taken the easy and profitable route: dependence on oil-rich Arab tyrants, a policy that mandates that the U.S. military spends billions each year to defend the Arab Peninsula’s fundamentally anti-U.S. police states. Only Dr. Paul can be counted on to allow the unfettered development of all domestic energy resources to promote energy self-sufficiency and allow the gradual abandonment of our mujahedin-motivating exploitation of Muslim oil. But even Dr. Paul cannot prevent the United States from fighting an oil war that the Republicans and Democrats have fixed on the national agenda, one that America will wage in the Niger Delta region — from which we will soon get 20-25 percent of our crude — because of the Islamist insurgency that is gathering steam in Nigeria and threatening the oil-rich Delta region’s stability.

Notwithstanding the damnable lies about Dr. Paul’s foreign policy constantly proclaimed by his fellow Republican candidates, leading pro-Israel/pro-intervention U.S.-citizens and their journalist friends, and most of the media, only the gentleman from Texas speaks for the Founders’ non-interventionist vision of America’s role in world affairs and for plain common sense. In the Founders’ non-interventionist design for U.S. foreign policy that is championed by Dr. Paul, Iowans will find a proven road to the maintenance of America’s sovereignty, independence, peace, and prosperity. In the realm of common sense, Dr. Paul beats his fellow candidates, the Obamaites, and the media hands down. Dr. Paul challenges the interventionists in both parties on their plans for spreading secular democracy — and causing wars thereby — on historical grounds that are irrefutable because they are just good common sense. We, the British, the Australians, and the Canadians have been building our republics/democracies since Magna Charta in 1215 — that is for nearly 800 years — and we are not yet quite perfect. If Iowans and all Americans truly think about what Dr. Paul is saying — and not what the interventionists say he is saying — they would respond favorably to the Texan’s logical conclusion that what we have not fully accomplished in eight centuries cannot possibly be attained in Egypt, Afghanistan, or elsewhere in the Muslim world in 6 weeks, 6 months, or six years, not least because none of those places separate church from state. Dr. Paul’s precise use of history and common sense exposes the exorbitantly costly effort to build democracies in the Islamic world for what it is; namely, Washington throwing money down the drain for a cause that is impossibly lost from the start and one that will involve us in wars where we have no interests.

In the words of Dr. Paul’s Republican opponents, the Obamaites, and most of the media, on the other hand, Iowans ought to easily be able to hear the elitist, racist, and war-causing Wilsonian doctrine of intervening abroad to impose democracy and secular social beliefs on foreigners at the point of bayonets. Indeed, the national-security policy advocated by Dr. Paul’s opponents and critics boils down to the clear and absurd argument that: America needs more and more wars — and the dead/maimed military personnel attendant thereto — that are motivated by Washington’s intervention abroad if Americans are to be safe and secure at home.

For Iowans and Americans as a whole, then, the best choice for their children, grandchildren, and country clearly lies in the Founder’s foreign-policy wisdom and Dr. Paul’s sturdy advocacy and promised application thereof.

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Michael Scheuer appears very condescending and also rather offensive to Muslims and their culture. He seems to be screaming, “leave them alone, they’re too primitive to understand democracy!”

SamRichards

He is saying that the Muslim world does not need the US to impose democracy or anything else on them. They are perfectly capable of determining their own destiny. @American Muse

jeff_r0x

@American Muse Seriously? That’s all you took from what you read? Up until 1953, Iran had a democratically elected president named Mohammad Mossadeq. Because of British oil greed, our CIA overthrew their government, and placed a dictator in his place. We call him the Shah. If anything, US intervention drove them back into extreme isolationism.

During the fifties and early sixties, South Vietnam has a democratically elected president named Dien. He was also on the payroll with the CIA at the time. In 1963, our own CIA had Dien assassinated because he didn’t want to play the CIA’s little pawn game against the Vietnamese people in the north. His death caused the democracy in the south to collapse, and the Communists came in and took over. That started the Vietnam war. These people were not primitive. They had sustainable governments until our interventionism destroyed their nations.

It’s called blowback.

fmfranklin200

911 wasn’t blowback. It was a false flag covert black op carried out by our government and the Israeli’s. You need to brush up on your Vietnam War history also! We prevented elections in the mid 50’s in Vietnam and installed our sock puppet Diem. When he didn’t cut the mustard we killed him,or had our stooges do it for us! Then we staged the imaginary false flag event known as The Tonkin Gulf Incident to get the Vietnam War going big time with hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops. @jeff_r0x @American Muse

DBlain

@American Muse I think it would be much more accurate to say that we shouldn’t be trying to impose democracy while the recipients of the glory of Amerikka are staring at the barrel of a damned gun.Condescending. pfft. Maybe he just doesn’t like murdering a few hundred thousand Iraqi civilians in the last decade, or kill HALF A MILLION Iraqi children with economic sanctions [enforced at the point of a gun].Grow the f**k up.

Reykool

@American Muse You are missing the point on “LEAVE THEM ALONE”….We should leave them alone indeed they are ALL without exception former European Colonies (rapped for centuries by Europeans for their oil and natural gas ) And now in the name of “Democracy” we give a new name to good old COLONIALISM while hiding behind a fake “War on Terror” that we created out of our blind pro Israel policies . ( for oil control and to impose our Rothschild Central Banking System )

Most Americans have NO UNDERSTANDING of what DEMOCRACY IS.

We try for decades to impose our “DISTORTED VERSION OF DEMOCRACY” to Muslim countries…So Michael Scheuer is absolutely right ….

The United State was NEVER a DEMOCRACY anyway, it was created as a CONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL REPUBLIC which is now a “CORPORATIST OLIGARCHY” . The GREEK word “DEMOCRACY” means “GOVERN BY THE PEOPLE” Who decided to bomb Iraq ? The American People ? Who created the Federal Reserve ? The American People ? Did you vote for the PATRIOT ACT ? or the creation of FEMA ? not to mention their Concentration Camps under REX 84 secret program (see Google) Did the American People vote to create the Federal Income Tax ? THE RULING ELITE DID NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Every 4 years we to get to vote and chose from a list of men and women PRE SELECTED by the Corporatist Oligarchy with VERY FEW EXCEPTION ( Ron Paul)

to create the illusion of a “democratic choice” while both party are serving the same masters. Obama is just continuing what George W Bush was doing and the next clown Mitt Rodney (if “elected” ) will do the same…DIFFERENT STYLE SAME BOTTOM LINE POLICIES which are established decades ahead by the real power to be a “ruling Elite’ who control Democrat and Republicans.

AND THAT IS THE KIND OF “DEMOCRACY” WE TRY TO SHOVEL DOWN THEIR THROAT WHILE DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN THE MIDDLE EAST, KILLING MILLIONS ,PRETENDING TO “LIBERATE” THEM FROM DICTATORS THAT WE PUT IN PLACE AND REMOVE WHEN WE FIND THEM NO LONGER USEFUL FOR ZIONIST ISRAEL… IRAN IS NEXT IN 2012…

IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP….WE TOOK OVER , WE ARE THE EVIL EMPIRE !

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SamRichards

Thank you Mr. Scheuer for this insightful article. I enjoy all your commentary.

Daveforliberty

America bombings of other countries with dates.

Iran 1987

Panama 1989

Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)

Kuwait 1991

Somalia 1993

Bosnia 1994, 1995

Sudan 1998

Afghanistan 1998

Yugoslavia 1999

Yemen 2002

Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)

Iraq 2003-present

Afghanistan 2001-present

Pakistan 2007-present

Somalia 2007-8, 2011

Yemen 2009, 2011

Libya 2011

How would you feel if another country bombed us. The citizens of these countries are terrified of America and their respective governments use that fear to steal what liberties they do have. Is it a coincidence that the American government takes measures to steal the liberties of Americans (i.e patriot act) using the fear they have of violent attacks from citizens of these countries and other we occupy with our military like Saudi Arabia?

LV Liberty Lover

We have 11 days to educate voters in New Hampshire that fear-mongering is not statesmanship. Free State Project participants and other awesome activists are hoisting RP to new heights in the First In Nation Primary state.

LenSnow

Freedom, liberty, and the right to prosper…lets bring it back to America. Ron Paul2012

It’s a rare honor indeed, for individuals on the web, seeking truth, to find such a gem of candidness as distinguished as Mr. Scheuer imparting wisdom from his years of service, expertise, historical knowledge, for our benefit, to inform and educate, the rightful duty of the individual, the media and our elected officials, the latter 2 however being too busy serving themselves and keeping their subjects in the dark with “damnable lies”. Thank you, Sir. It’s reassuring to know there is hope with a President Paul.

DSHolter

This is an eloquent defense of Dr. Paul. I wish he could appear on news reports in Iowa before the primary caucuses. It would be a great boost at just the right time.

Republicae

It is truly ashamed that the American people are so indoctrinated by the interventionist dogma that they can’t see just the consequences of such policies. We will all pay the price for the religion of war and covert intrigues; our children and their children’s children will suffer dearly for our own lack of vision.

Thank you Michael Scheuer for an educated, well thought out explanation of the ACTUAL views of Dr. Paul and the historical precedents that clearly show he is right. Thank you, also, for openly criticizing our pig-headed politicians and their lapdog media whores for their blatant lies.

RobertFallin

I wish the Ron Paul campaign would put Michael Scheuer in the forefront on the Iranian issue, broadcasting a 60 second ad IMMEDIATELY in Iowa and New Hampshire.

SamRichards

@RobertFallin I second this.

Patriot

@RobertFallin

We’re in VT too

Endorsements are great and the more the merrier.

Ron Paul’s position on Israel is exactly right. Respect Israel’s sovereignty–stop meddling in its affairs. Israel does not need our money and will be better off when we stop paying for its enemies to buy weapons to kill Israelis and textbooks that teach children to hate Jews and Americans.

Some supporters, however, are dead wrong. Leave Israel alone–yes, but to perpetuate the illogical and despicable lie that Israel is to blame for the crimes committed against it by murderous religious bigots is to make a mockery of the libertarian ideal of individual responsibility. If this kind of thinking infiltrates our revolution too deeply, the revolution will fail.

So please join us, but leave your old double standards, prejudices and hatreds at home. They are not welcome here.

txsmotogal

Great article, I will past this as much as possible. Americans need to know the truth!

9:14 am: "ooo wow nice attempt at a ad hom! Did the reds steal the election from you? Where is McCarthy when you need him? Am I right?" - JBrown

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